Life Happens

Natasha

"The incident occurred just a few feet behind me as you can see. The suspect has been arrested and is believed to be a local woman named Jessica Jones. Officers are completely baffled as to what led her to such drastic actions especially as it took place in-front of several witnesses."

Natasha turned off the report. "Well this makes things more complicated." She said after awhile.

"Are you sure that's who you saw?" Steve asked pulling up the old footage from the car.

"Steve you can clearly see that's her."

"And she was also at the hospital?" Steve questioned.

"Yeah, she was there with a guy, they left just as everything started to go downhill."

"Alright I'll see if I can arrange something but I can't promise anything." Steve sighed. "This job was a lot easier when we were just busting arms dealers."

"I think this has been building up for a while. I'm pretty sure it's about to explode. I should talk to her and the other guy."

"You think that's a good idea? This... Jessica could create unwanted media attention." Steve said.

"I love how much you hate the media but... they wouldn't have to know."

"Nat, what are you suggesting?"

"I'm a spy and ex assassin, I know how to get in and out of a police station plus I can drop Bruce off at the Tower on the way. Maybe he'll be able to talk to Tony more than me."

"You really think that'll work?" Steve raised a hopeful eyebrow.

"Well Bruce and Rhodes are his best friends, if all else fails they can call Pepper in. And Tony should probably know about me and Bruce and he should probably hear it from his science bro. I was going to tell him when I went there last time but he didn't really want to talk."

"Nat, please be careful." Steve said after a short spell of silence.

"I always am. And you better look after yourself as well."

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Natasha crawled through the air vent. She had found this experience way too easy. There was hardly any security which was pretty bad for a police station. As she finally got to her destination she could here a conversation happening.

"Jess... what has gotten into you? First you come here with a severed head and now you've killed this guy? And where the hell is your lawyer?" A male voice asked.

"She's busy. Her ex was killed by the guy I killed." She stated bluntly.

"We've gone over this, humans can't control other humans with their mind."

"Wait so you believe that a guy can turn into a green monster because he's angry and that weird Sokovian girl but you don't believe in mind control? Fucking typical."

"Fine. We'll continue this tomorrow. I'll get a cell ready for you." A chair scrapped across the floor signalling the mans exit. Natasha waited an extra couple of seconds after hearing the door close to make her move. She crept closer to the opening and peered into the room to make sure it was indeed and empty. As she started to open the vent Jessica looked up and saw here.

"What the hell are you doing?" She asked not taking her eyes off of Natasha who was slowly lowering herself into the room. "Oh fucking great." She said after realising who was descending from the vents.

"Please keep your voice down. We don't want to alert anyone. I'm just here to ask you a few questions." Natasha stated.

"I'll answer your questions if you get me out of here." Jessica replied staring directly to Natasha's eyes.

"I can't smuggle you out of here. They'll just hunt you down."

"I'm not talking about that. You know how this system works, the more money you have the smaller the punishment. And you have a very rich friend who is sat in his tower."

"So you're bribing me?" Natasha glared at her.

"More like a payment for information." Jessica smiled. "Maybe I'll see you again soon... or maybe I won't. The choice is yours." Jessica leaned back in her seat. "Now I suggest you get out of here before they find you."

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"I wasn't expecting you back so soon." Bruce smiled up at Natasha as he saw her walk into the lab.

"Believe me, I wasn't expecting it either. Where's Tony?" Natasha said as she placed a quick kiss on Bruce's temple.

"Bathroom. He should be back in any second."

"Have you told him yet? About us?"

"Yeah. He took it well. Oh speaking of the devil." Bruce said glancing behind Natasha towards and very tired looking Tony.

"What brings you back so soon? If you'd have called ahead I would've made myself more presentable." Tony said as he looked down at his old  oil stained t-shirt which drew out a small chuckle out of the couple.

"Well as you can probably tell its not good news."

"Do we ever get good news?" Tony interrupted.

"Well I spoke to Jessica only she isn't cooperating. She doesn't want to talk unless you get her out of jail."

"Oh that's it? I thought it would be harder than that. I'll get a couple of people on the case. Hopefully she actually has something to tell us." Tony said tapping away at his phone.

"Really? You're ok with doing this?" Bruce said looking between the pair. "You're just gonna give her what she wants?"

"If it means she'll talk then yeah. Right now we need as much information as possible. I'll update the others on what's happening and you two have fun doing science stuff." Natasha smiled at the pair.

"Before you go... what about Thanksgiving? I was thinking about having it in the Tower. Ask the others what they think will you?" Tony asked still on his phone.

"Ok... any particular reason why?"

"It's just easier isn't it? Laura and the kids are already here, Pepper and Happy can come here easier as well." Tony looked up from his phone. "And then it means Bruce can stay here longer doing science." Tony winked at Bruce.

"Anything to steal my man Stark." Natasha joked leaving the three of them laughing.